Here are two studies that refer to crime reporting in Philadelphia and other large cities; both include reference to KVUE in Austin and that station's attempt in the 1990s to curb crime reporting, which tends to distort and exaggerate criminal activity and to extend stereotypes of blacks as criminals, whites and victims.
www.localtvnews.org/papers/CrimeCommLocalTVNews.pdf
http://www.justicejournalism.org/pdfs/SceneOfTheCrime.pdf
Thursday, September 18, 2008
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